• Modern healthcare · Mar 2002

    Crime and punishment. Instead of a slap on the wrist, crooked healthcare executives now are being sentenced to prison thanks to a crackdown on white-collar crime.

    • Mark Taylor.
    • Mod Healthc. 2002 Mar 18;32(11):6-7, 16.

    AbstractLawmakers wondering how to handle white-collar crime might look to the healthcare industry, where crooked executives are being held criminally accountable for shady business dealings and corrupt practices that previously may have resulted in quiet dismissals. A confluence of factors has driven the crackdown, from escalating whistleblower lawsuits to a decade-long effort to halt Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

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